Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Left-overs

Coming up with something healthy and appealing to my family for dinner every night is hard. I think I've been stuck in a bit of a rut, fixing the same thing over and over. We've been eating a lot of "breakfast for dinner"-type meals since I gave Ryan a griddle for Christmas. (Can't believe we were married 9 1/2 years and only finally got one!) But even that was getting old.

Wandering around the grocery store on Monday, I remembered it's been a long time since I've fixed Hawaiian Haystacks for dinner. Hawaiian Haystacks can even be customized for the picky eaters. It was perfect!﻿ So I picked up chow mein noodles and green onions (since I had everything else) and came home.

Once the cooking and chopping was done, I went through my cupboards for pineapple, coconut and sliced almonds. That's when I remembered that all of my coconut was blue:

Back in November I threw a Dr. Seuss birthday party for the twins' 2nd birthday. I made Thing 1 and Thing 2 cupcakes, and used blue coconut for the "hair" which can be seen in this post. In my over-zealous-ness, I dyed the whole bag of coconut. It definitely makes the Hawaiian Haystacks very colorful.

If anyone else is stuck in a dinner rut- here's the recipe for our version of HH: